The University of Texas at Austin was awarded a $402,261 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences. The grant supports the REU SITE: INCLUSIVE STUDENT TRAINING IN RAPIDLY URBANIZING CLIMATE-SENSITIVE TERRAINS program. Under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research, the University will deliver research experiences for undergraduates focused on rapidly urbanizing...
The University of Texas at Austin was awarded a $358,157 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences. The grant is part of the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to expand understanding of the integrated Earth system. Under the award, UT Austin will conduct collaborative research on vertical signatures of lithospheric deformation in the western United States from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2024. The research is expected to...
The National Science Foundation awarded Columbia University a three-year, $343,812 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) beginning September 1, 2021. The grant supports the development of open source Polar Radar (OPORA) software and services to advance EarthCube capabilities for studying the integrated Earth system. Specifically, the funding enables collaborative research to build upon existing radar data processing libraries and create new open tools, workflows, and services...
The University of Texas at Austin was awarded a $595,062 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences. The grant is part of the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system. Under the three-year award beginning September 2021, the University will assess the long-term stability of adaptive radiations using the fossil record. The products will include analyses of how species groups...
The University of Texas at Austin received a two-year, $292,433 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences. The grant funds basic research examining the impact of upper-plate splay faults on stress state and strength of the megathrust and fluid budgets in accreting sediments. This research directly supports the goals of the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through support of basic...
The University of Texas at Austin was awarded a $646,826 project grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure. The grant is part of the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education in computing, communications, and information science and engineering. Under the award, UT Austin will develop a seismic computational platform called SCOPED to empower discovery in...
The University of Texas at Austin was awarded a $287,248 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Biological Infrastructure to support the COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SUSTAINABLE ABI: ARCTOS SUSTAINABILITY project. The three-year award running from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024 will fund research to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the Nation's scientific enterprise through increased scientific knowledge and enhanced understanding of major problems...
The National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded a $299,130 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Austin on July 15, 2021 for collaborative research titled "Dynamics of Seasonal Forecast Uncertainty: Cross-Basin Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions." The research is being conducted under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system. The University of Texas at...
The National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded the University of Texas at Austin a $1,150,800 Project Grant under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) for the period of May 1, 2021 through April 30, 2024. The grant supports collaborative research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: P2C2--EL NI?O SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO) VARIABILITY CHANGES DURING ABRUPT CLIMATE EVENTS" to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system...
The University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. was awarded a three-year, $671,051 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to develop open-source software and services for the Open Polar Radar (OPORA) program under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The goal of the Geosciences program is to strengthen understanding of Earth's integrated systems through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Through this award, the University of Kansas will create OPORA...